pandas at the walters

there have been a lot of panda bears at my house lately.

it all began with a book that jane and her speech therapist, anne used to read:
brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?



then we moved onto the other books in the series, baby bear, polar bear, and of course,
panda bear, panda bear, what do you see?



jane enjoyed those books a lot,



but then we got an audio book of gwyneth paltrow reading all four stories. she listened to them non-stop for days.



then, i celebrated a birthday, and we got a gift certificate from judie for the build-a-bear-workshop. so we went to the store, and i asked jane what kind of bear that she wanted. of course, she wanted a panda bear. we chose its heart, watched it get stuffed, and then we made a birth certificate for it. i asked her, “what is his name?” to which she answered,
“…panda.”
duh dad!



we had some extra gift certificate, so we decided to get the bear some clothes. and what does a big-kid-panda need? underwear of course! because this panda doesn’t wear diapers like a baby! so jane chose red underwear for the panda.



today we were surfing youtube, and we discovered this clip.



jane laughed out loud and watched it over and over. and no- we haven’t seen kung-fu panda, i think we have had enough pandas in this house for awhile. (except for panda express, they are welcome anytime).